Lamp-extinguisher.



I. G. BERGEN.

LAMP EXTINGUISHER.

APPLIOATION FILED 00w. 28, 1912.

1 ,080,946. Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

ISAAC C. BERGEN, OE WALDHEIM, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

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Patented Dec. 9, 191

Application filed October 28, 1912. Serial No. 728,134.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IsAAoC. 'Bnnonn, a subject of the King of England, residing at WValdheim, in the Province of Saskatchewan, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp: Extinguishers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in lamp extinguishersand the primary object of the invention is to provide a simple device in the form of an attachment adapted to be removably secured to a lamp and which will be eflicient for extinguishing the light without removing the chimney or necessitating blowing out of the light and consequent inhalation of smoke and oil odors which are liable to injure the health.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists of certain fiother combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed, it being a still further object of the inventionto provide a device which will not f 'guisher, I provide a metallic clamp comprising two sections of metal 16, the same being be likely to get out of working order.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a side ele vation of a lamp of ordinary design provided with my improved extinguishing device. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device removed from the lamp. 1

Referring to the drawings in detail, there is shown a lamp of ordinary design having an oil receiving member 10, a chimney. 11 being mounted upon a suitable ripping base 12 which is open at its undersi e for the entrance of draft air forming an up-draft for the lamp which is provided with the usual lid 13. The base 12 is also provided with a neck 14 which secures it to the oil receiving member or reservoir 10 and through which the wick 15 extends in the usual manner.

In the construction of my improved extinbent in arcuate form as shown at 17 and-in opposite directions to be clamped around the neck 14: and secured upon diametrically opposite sides thereof through the medium 'of clamping bolts or screws 18, which latter are engaged through registering openings in the adjacent cont-acting portions of the strips, the inner end portions of which are bent to provide ears 19 providing for such adjustment. It will also be seen that the strips 16 extend outwardly above the reser voirvor oil receiving member 10 and beyond the supporting base 12 in a horizontal position and have their end portions bent upwardly as shown at 20 to provide clamping jaws 21 of arcuate formation which are secured together by a bolt or screw 22 at their upper extremities. A metallic tube 23 is held between said clamping jaws and has an upwardly extending inner end or nozzle 24 while the outer end thereof carries a compressible bulb 25 preferably of rubber which may be operated to force a blast of air through the open base and thereby extinguish the light of the lamp.

The many advantages of a device of this character is especially apparent in view of the fact that it is devised as an attachment for lamps of general character, and especially those having a neck portion with an open base whereby the tube can be clamped therearound and the bulb thereof supported out of contact with any of the parts oflthe burner as well as the tube and preventing injury to the bulb, the bulb also extending outwardly beyond the reservoir to permit it to be readily grasped and squeezed to force an air blast through the tube and directly at the light for extinguishing the same.

I claim In a' lamp extinguisher, the combination with a lamp having a neck portion, and a base having an open bottom; of a clamping member engaged around the neck, means for securing the same in position, said clamping member having an upwardly extending por-' tion provided with a clamp, a tube having an upwardly directed inner end extended beneath the base and a com ressible bulb mounted on the outer end of t e tube.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signa-.

ture, in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC C. BERGEN.

Witnesses:

JACOB C. BERGEN, FRED. V. RIELLY.

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